What's next on your history reading list?

That one includes two 'booksellers' (Knapton and Longman) associated with Johnson's Dictionary, not too many years later (from 1740).

 

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Fantastic. Sorry, but could you help out with bibliographic info on this? ...Nope, gonna Amazon (bibliographic equivalent of the verb, 'to Wiki') this.

 

Should not be a problem my friend.. just added your requests to my grocery list.. right beside the bananas and peanut butter! Will see what the wife comes home with... she rarely disappoints.

 

LOL, would love to see her face if she had to order those coins!

 

Knowing her she would not come home empty handed.. she would find a way.. the gold coin would have a chocolate centre.(fouree?)

 

LOL, PERFECT!

 

Very informative thread which has given me a few ideas of what to read next..Thanks!
I've had this book since xmas and will start to read it over the next couple of weeks. Any feedback/personal opinions from anyone who has already digested it appreciated..

 

Wow, what a wonderful looking library!

The thing that struck me immediately about the cathedral is the twin clock towers...& they are set for the same time. I don't recall seeing 2 clocks before...do you know the reason? (perhaps am & pm, showing the time on the exact opposite side of the planet? )

Btw, like you, I purchased THE AGE OF ILLUMINATION (Amazon) & thanks to @Orfew for posting it!

This has really turned into a great thread!!

 

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I'm currently waiting for this to be delivered, a history of 18th Century British Trade Tokens. Looks great.

 

Thanks Shea19, I'm quite interested in the "Wars of the Diodachi" and the sucessors of Alexander. Sadly I lost a Selucid tetradrachm of Antiochus IV, even tho I had the high bid!!! Well actually they closed the lot in like 5 seconds as it was relatively low value {to them} thus my click on "bid higher" was not executed in time. Thus my interest in the Diodachi was severly crimped due to loss of the coin but now it's slowly recovering.


Also I read and enjoyed the following 2 books.

Mortal Republic by Watts is an easier read AND the author is really into illustrating everything with Roman coins. The Storm Before the Storm is quite detailled.

 

FitzNigel, Thank you Massively your recommendation! From here, it was a total surprise. Without thinking, I preemptively nabbed the cheapest copy on Amazon (via an independent listing --that much is muscle memory).
...This looks like the complement that that many of us have been waiting for, both to Douglas's biography of William (TB /TC), and Bates's Normandy Before 1066. Can't wait to get my first look.

 

...Okay, in related news, Seth77 recently turned me on to this book, which arrived here late last week.

On a personal level, the book kind of threw me off, since I'm going to have to cite it for an article I uploaded to academia.edu (...which was otherwise in desperate need both of editing and reformatting). ...A little late, since it was first published in 1988. But, after skipping to what, from here, are 'the good parts,' it's already obvious that it was already a milestone in the synthesis of resonantly multidisciplinary scholarship of which numismatics is capable. Right, my first comparisons were to the likes of Grierson and Blackburn.

 

Found a 1st edition at the thrift store today for a buck. I had it on my want list on amazon for 25

 

FitzNigel, Norman Rule in Normandy just got here. It looks fantastic --what the doctor ordered, for catching up with everything that's been done in journals since the glory days of Douglas and Bates. I like how, in the 'Note on the Text,' the author effectively apologizes for not having access to research in German!